----- Original Message ----- From: "William Denton" <
buff@pobox.com>
> On 3 February 2004, Chris Martin wrote:
>
> : I'm delighted that James Sallis month has arrived.
I kicked it off by
> : reading Difficult Lives, his study of Thompson,
Goodis and Himes. It
> : made me realize how woefully underread I am of
their work. It's a nice
> : book and it gives some background on Sallis's
exposure to this genre as
> : well.
>
> Mr. Robison has spoken highly of this book. Is it a
mix of biography and
> criticism? From what I can see from the online
bookstores the 2000
> edition has gone out of print, and most used copies
listed online (of
> that or the 1993 edition) aren't cheap.
It's still available at $15, the original cover price of the
2000 edition, from the publisher, Gryphon Books. It may be
expensive for such a slim volume, but the well-dressed noir
fan shouldn't be seen without it. Brilliant stuff,
particularly on Goodis. A mixture of biography and criticism,
but, for obvious reasons in Goodis's case, a lot more
emphasis on the latter.
Al
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